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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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Did Leonord Give Us a Continuous Line in Numbering?

Peter porma: The arabic mathematicians pee like hores. When we got ti zero, then when we got the third zero between the two, the two ones that did that. Did leonord give us a continuous line in numbering that they hadn't had before? No, noon gives us awile. Well, the em even in theslamque tre people like horisme in his r algebra, still didn't use the notion of zero. That took a sort of later in europe before it really caught on.

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